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Mrs. Kretchek from Indianapolis, IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Book Is a Dream You Can Hold!

Help me give my students a variety of books and help us build our new classroom library from scratch!

  • $767 goal

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My Project

Welcome to my classroom library project! At Hawthorne Elementary, we believe in the power of reading to ignite curiosity and inspire young minds. Our classroom library is the center of learning where scholars discover new worlds, make connections with diverse characters, and develop a lifelong love for reading. As a new teacher at this school, I am eager to continue to grow my library collection, and my scholars' love of reading. With your generous contribution, I aim to continue to develop our classroom library with a wide range of books that will meet the needs of all my scholars. By contributing to this project, you are investing in the future of our readers.

Mrs. Kretchek
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
National Geographic Kids Readers 6 Book Set (National Geographic Kids Readers, Levels : 1 & 2) by Anne Schreiber (2012-08-01) • Amazon Business $35.32 1 $35.32
National Geographic Kids Ocean Life Six Book Set : Weird Sea Creatures, Dolphins,Coral Reefs, At the Beach, Sea Turtles, Great Migrations: Whales • Amazon Business $33.01 1 $33.01
Jabari Jumps (paperback picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $10.00 1 $10.00
Mother Bruce-Mother Bruce, Book 1 (Mother Bruce Series) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Harper Collins Charlottes Web Book By E.B. White, Grades All • Quill.com $9.53 1 $9.53
We Will Rock Our Classmates: A Penelope Rex Book • Amazon Business $9.40 1 $9.40
We Don't Eat Our Classmates: A Penelope Rex Book • Amazon Business $9.31 1 $9.31
The Name Jar (paperback picture book) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Bear Can't Sleep (The Bear Books) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
What If There Were No Sea Otters?: A Book About the Ocean Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
I Have Ants in My Pants: A Picture Book About Learning Self-Control and Respecting Others Space • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
Should I Share My Ice Cream?-An Elephant and Piggie Book • Amazon Business $8.56 1 $8.56
Classic Children's Books, Where the Wild Things Are, Paperback • Quill.com $8.54 1 $8.54
Kitten's First Full Moon Board Book: A Caldecott Award Winner • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky: Over 150 Spooky Stickers Inside. A Halloween Book for Kids (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $8.35 1 $8.35
Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn: A Fall Book for Kids • Amazon Business $8.27 1 $8.27
Stephen Curry: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Never Gave Up • Amazon Business $8.05 1 $8.05
Wilma Jean the Worry Machine: A Picture Book About Managing Worry and Anxiety • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Desert Animal Adaptations (A+ Books: Amazing Animal Adaptations) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Parts (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
Grumpy Monkey Freshly Squeezed: A Graphic Novel Chapter Book • Amazon Business $7.84 1 $7.84
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: A Growth Mindset Book for Kids to Stretch and Shape Their Brains • Amazon Business $7.78 1 $7.78
Quarterback Sneak (Jake Maddox Sports Stories) (Impact Books) • Amazon Business $7.75 1 $7.75
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners • Amazon Business $7.34 1 $7.34
Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit (Lunch Lady, Book 5) • Amazon Business $7.28 1 $7.28
Whistle for Willie (board book) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Doctor De Soto: (Newbery Honor Book; National Book Award Finalist) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Chrysanthemum: A First Day of School Book for Kids • Amazon Business $7.08 1 $7.08
I Am Human: A Book of Empathy (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Knight and the Dragon (Paperstar Book) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Snow: (Caldecott Honor Book) (Sunburst Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Rain Forest Animal Adaptations (A+ Books Amazing Animal Adaptations) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3): An Origami Yoda Book • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
La Isla (Spanish Edition) (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Full Court Dreams (Impact Books a Jake Madox Sports Story) • Amazon Business $6.96 1 $6.96
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Caldecott Honor Book) (Great Black Performers, 2) • Amazon Business $6.93 1 $6.93
Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book • Amazon Business $6.90 1 $6.90
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Soccer Shootout (Impact Books; a Jake Maddox Sports Story) • Amazon Business $6.86 1 $6.86
Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book • Amazon Business $6.85 1 $6.85
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books! • Amazon Business $6.55 1 $6.55
Super Rabbit Boy Powers Up! A Branches Book (Press Start! #2) (2) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Splat the Cat: Where's the Easter Bunny?: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Borreguita and the Coyote (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Peter's Chair (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Arthur Locked in the Library!: An Arthur Chapter Book (Arthur Chapter Books) • Amazon Business $6.23 1 $6.23
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue: A Picture Book that Helps Kids Learn the Difference Between Tattling and Telling • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19
Howl at the Moon: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #3) (3) • Amazon Business $6.16 1 $6.16
Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny (Book 27) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Ivy and Bean Take the Case (Book 10) (Ivy & Bean) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Batter Up! (Jake Maddox Sports Stories) (Impact Books) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Secret of the Water Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #3) (3) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Hero Dog!: A Branches Book (Hilde Cracks the Case #1) (1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Awesome Orange Birthday: A Branches Book (The Party Diaries #1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Take Care of the Babysitter (Ivy & Bean, Book 4) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Cocoa (Puppy Place, Book 25) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Just Me and My Puppy (A Little Critter Book) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Break the Fossil Record (Ivy + Bean, Book 3) • Amazon Business $5.88 1 $5.88
Let's Get Cracking!: A Branches Book (Kung Pow Chicken) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Chill of the Ice Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #9) (9) • Amazon Business $5.74 1 $5.74
Roar of the Thunder Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #8) (8) • Amazon Business $5.72 1 $5.72
Ivy and Bean and the Ghost that Had to Go (Ivy & Bean, Book 2) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
Ivy & Bean (Book 1) • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Dog Days: The Carver Chronicles, Book One • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
The Stories Julian Tells (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) (Julian's World) • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Boris Gets a Lizard: A Branches Book (Boris #2) (2) • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Ivy and Bean Doomed to Dance (Book 6): (Best Friends Books for Kids, Elementary School Books, Early Chapter Books) (Ivy & Bean) • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Twister Trouble (The Magic School Bus Chapter Book, No. 5) (The Magic School Bus, A Science Chapter Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Digging for Dinos: A Branches Book (Haggis and Tank Unleashed #2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Power of the Fire Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters 4): Volume 4 (Dragon Masters) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Eye of the Earthquake Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #13) (13) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book) • Amazon Business $4.74 1 $4.74
Just Going to the Dentist (Little Critter) (Golden Look-Look Books) • Amazon Business $4.43 1 $4.43
The Three Little Pigs (Reading Railroad Books) • Amazon Business $4.42 1 $4.42
The Search for the Missing Bones (The Magic School Bus Chapter Book, No. 2) • Amazon Business $4.39 1 $4.39
The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books) • Amazon Business $4.24 1 $4.24
The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes (Magic School Bus) (Magic School Bus TV) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Pete the Cat: Snow Daze: A Winter and Holiday Book for Kids (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.59 1 $3.59
The Berenstain Bears' Night Before Christmas: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids • Amazon Business $2.95 1 $2.95

Materials cost

$603.12

Vendor shipping charges

 $9.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$651.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$114.91

Total project goal

$766.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $766.08

1 Donor

-$766.08

Donations toward project cost

-$651.17

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.91

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